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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?
(a) 41.
(b) 55.
(c) 42.
(d) 51.

2. When did Dr. Pozzi arrive in Paris to study medicine?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1860.

3. Whose portrait of Montesquiou appeared on the 1967 cover of Against Nature?
(a) Picasso's.
(b) Dali's.
(c) Sargent's.
(d) Boldini's.

4. What did the count, the prince, and the doctor hear at Crystal Palace at the Handel Festival?
(a) Israel in Egypt.
(b) Agrippina.
(c) Alcina.
(d) Flavio.

5. Who wrote the play Love is the Best Medicine?
(a) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Jean Lorrain.
(d) Alexandre Laboulbene.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was A Rebours first translated to English?

2. Where was Liberty and Co. located when it opened in London?

3. When did Dr. Pozzi receive his doctorate on fistulas of the upper rectum?

4. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?

5. Who was the prince among the three men who visited London in 1885?

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